As the City of Charlottesville waits for a written court order in an ongoing zoning lawsuit, it is continuing to operate under its 2024 development code — and taking steps toward ensuring that it can continue operating under its new zoning ordinance in the future.
The city is still awaiting an official written order from Charlottesville Circuit Court Judge Claude Worrell, who instructed the city to toss out its new zoning ordinance and revert back to its old rules.
On June 30, Worrell voided the zoning ordinance City Council adopted in December 2023, and which took effect in February 2024 as part of the lawsuit against the city. The case was set to go to trial, but attorneys with Gentry Locke, a private law firm hired to litigate the case for the city, missed a key filing deadline, which prompted the default judgment in favor of the plaintiffs…